International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions21
Editorial Board20
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 198318
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives16
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”15
Use of the least intrusive coercion at Danish psychiatric wards: A register-based cohort study of 131,632 first and subsequent coercive episodes within 35,812 admissions14
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents13
Towards a consensus on training for advance care planning in mental health: Results from a Delphi study13
Admission without consent to a psychiatric ward and length of hospital stay: The role of selected sociodemographic and clinical factors13
Editorial Board12
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future11
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 202010
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders10
Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion10
Bottlenecks in the Belgian forensic care system: A qualitative study on residual patients9
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them9
A repertoire and critical review of international resources relevant to medical assistance in dying where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition8
Blurred boundaries: Community treatment orders as instruments of racial surveillance8
Suicidal ideation amongst incarcerated populations: An examination of contributing factors amongst male inmates in Southwest Nigeria8
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte7
Capacity and incapacity: An appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?7
RIGHTCARE-PR: Reporting guidelines for human rights in child and adolescent psychiatry7
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization7
Mental disorder and discernment in jihadi terrorists: A study of 100 pre-sentence forensic psychiatric evaluations in France7
Restraint in health and social care settings6
Validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the admission experience survey in individuals with mental illness6
A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance6
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and decision-making: Legal & ethical hurdles for implementation in mental health6
Best Interests decision-making processes in learning disability services in Northern Ireland6
The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa6
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the Health Screening of People in Police Custody (HELP-PC) tool in Northumbria Police, UK6
Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay6
Editorial Board6
Large language models and psychiatry6
Forensic aspects of dissociative positive symptoms in trauma-related disorders and borderline personality disorder6
Developmental factors in forensic assessments of children over the minimum age of criminal responsibility: A study of forensic reports in Norway 2013–20245
Policing psychiatric illness: An organisational paradox for Health & Law5
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland5
Antisocial personality disorder and determinants among prisoners in South Gondar zone correctional institutions, Northwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study5
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure5
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony5
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye5
Involuntary patients awareness of their entitlement to appeal an admission and existence of the mental health review board in South Africa5
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities5
“Gut feeling and subtle signals”: Norwegian police officers' strategies for identifying cognitive disabilities in suspects during the initial stages of the legal process5
Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility5
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles5
Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with jail entry after a mental health crisis5
Between expertise and judgment: Discordance between forensic psychiatric reports and judicial decisions in Brazilian litigation4
Attitudes and ethical beliefs of Russian psychiatrists towards the use of coercive treatment practices4
An integrative review exploring decision-making processes in forensic psychopathology investigations4
Editorial Board4
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach4
Addressing the false dichotomy between autonomy and preservation of life: Clinical, legal, and ethical considerations in severe and longstanding anorexia nervosa4
Perspectives on the eligibility criteria for euthanasia for mental suffering caused by psychiatric disorder under the Belgian Euthanasia Law: A qualitative interview study among mental healthcare work4
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care4
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations4
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’4
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey4
Effects of psychological torture and cybertorture with emerging digital technologies under anti-torture legal obligations in China: A mixed methods research in risks and remedies4
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework4
Editorial Board4
Insight, the law and psychiatry: Going round in circles or playing nice?4
A mixed-methods analysis of the influence of bio-behavioral scientific evidence on U.S. judges' reasoning and sentencing decision-making3
Informal coercion towards discharge: The entanglement of formal and informal coercion in social resource introduction3
The use of community treatment orders in people with substance induced psychosis3
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments3
Exploring structural stigma towards mental disorders: An analysis of trial verdicts3
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization: A close look at the mafia men3
Prescription patterns of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in Berlin prisons3
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: An overview3
Editorial Board3
An International Comparison of Psychiatric Advance Directive Policy: Across eleven jurisdictions and alongside advance directive policy3
Artificial intelligence in insanity evaluation. Potential opportunities and current challenges3
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison3
Mental health disorders, adverse childhood experiences and accelerated reoffending among justice-involved youth in Australia: A longitudinal recurrent event analysis3
Juror decision making: Does juror stigma, mental health literacy, or the description of a defendant's mental health status, impact decision-making in a mock criminal trial?3
Forensic mental health research: The potential of Danish national registers3
Cognitive biases in forensic psychiatry: A scoping review3
Editorial Board3
Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore3
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect: A relational lens3
Editorial Board3
Decision-making by and for adults with impaired capacity: The potential of the Dutch levenstestament3
Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law3
“It just felt like a rubber stamp”: Family experiences of mental health review board hearings in Ontario, Canada3
Hospital break. An eight-year review of escapes and absconds from two high security forensic centers2
Analysing risk factors for involuntary admission from an intersectional perspective: A latent class analysis2
Editorial Board2
Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law2
Forensic psychiatry assessment and human rights in Ukraine: response to Butenko et al's paper ‘Forensic psychiatry misuse in proceedings of administrative offenses’ (2023)Type of submission2
Personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention2
Validity and reliability of Mexican version of MacArthur competence assessment tool for treatment decision (MacCAT-T) in patients with schizophrenia2
The reform of Irish mental health law: Aligning with human rights obligations?2
The Dutch Compulsory Care Act: Possible effects on emergency involuntary admissions, treatment, and length of stay2
Editorial Board2
Can coercion in psychiatry be justified? A theoretical adversarial collaboration approach2
Individual liberty, safety and police liabilities under the mental health (care and treatment) act2
Coercive measures in disability and mental health care services: Mechanical restraints from a bioethical and legal perspective in Spain2
Stigma management during reintegration of older incarcerated adults with mental health issues: A qualitative analysis2
The Amsterdam post-booking diversion program; a new program for mentally disordered suspects2
Restricted patients and detention in the community: The human rights implications of supervised discharge under the Mental Health Bill 20252
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: In response to Ramos et al.2
“Everyone means well but the one person who's really going to go to bat” - experiences and perspectives of substitute decision makers in caring for their loved ones with serious mental illness2
Elusive cases in forensic psychiatry? Exploring subgroups of schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients in Germany2
Editorial Board2
Stakeholder experiences with compulsory treatment at home: A focus-group study2
Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia – Clinician perspectives2
No man's land: Troubling the borders of mental health and capacity law2
Adult safeguarding legislation: Navigating the borderlands between mental capacity, mental health and social care law and practice2
Mental health and sentencing: How are judicial decisions made in light of the judgement of R v Vowles? (A partial replication of )2
Is assisted dying a treatment?2
Decision-making capacity law developments in Aotearoa New Zealand2
The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people2
Editorial Board2
RECAPACITA project: Comparing neuropsychological profiles in people with severe mental disorders, with and without capacity modification2
A systematic mapping review identifying key features of restraint research in inpatient pediatric psychiatry: A human rights perspective2
Abolition: Is this the only pathway to upholding human rights and ensuring epistemic justice in psychiatry? A key informant qualitative study2
Legal consciousness of psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals: Awareness and satisfaction2
Risk factors for involuntary admission in a Romanian patient sample2
Editorial Board2
Replacing the medical member of the first-tier Tribunal (Mental health) with a clinical member for tribunal applications and references made under the Mental Health Act 1983 (England and Wales)1
The efficacy of CBT based interventions to sexual offenders: A systematic review of the last decade literature1
Editorial Board1
Examining intellectual functioning and disability in Singapore's legal landscape1
Editorial Board1
Overview of forensic outpatients on the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act in Japan1
The rights to legal capacity, personal freedom, and safety during psychiatric hospitalizations at a general hospital1
Latent profiles and psychosocial correlates of persistent self-injury among incarcerated adults1
Criminal recidivism of patients in Swedish forensic psychiatry: A register-based comparison study1
Editorial Board1
A human rights indicator for the mental health context: A scoping review and analysis1
The validity of the BDHI translated into Papiamento in pre-trial defendants in Curaçao1
What place has ‘capacity’ in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?1
Distinctive and common risk factors contributing to violent offending in patients with schizophrenia compared to people without a mental illness1
Psychiatric evaluations for adolescent offenders with delinquency in Taiwan1
The Mental Health Bill 2024 in the Republic of Ireland: Potential implications for adults with intellectual disabilities1
Evaluation of dangerousness and risk of recidivism of Islamist terrorists by the expert psychiatrist: Analysis of 100 penal post-sentence expert reports in France1
Recent research involving consent, alcohol intoxication, and memory: Implications for expert testimony in sexual assault cases1
Identifying deficits in Ukrainian law: Forensic psychiatry misuse in proceedings of administrative offenses1
Experts' decision-making processes in Swedish forensic psychiatric investigations: A case vignette study1
Comparing mental health and mental capacity law data across borders: Challenges and opportunities1
Editorial Board1
Mental health-related limitations and political leadership in Germany: A multidisciplinary analysis of legal, psychiatric, and ethical frameworks1
The importation model mediated: New evidence for security threat group in the prediction of prison misconduct1
Informed consent for capacity assessment1
Compulsory admissions, mechanical restraints and staff attitudes toward coercion in a sample of psychiatric wards in Italy1
Global prevalence of borderline personality disorder and self-reported symptoms of adults in prison: A systematic review and meta-analysis1
Factors influencing decision-making capacity assessments in involuntary care and treatment in Norway: A qualitative exploration of multi-stakeholder perspectives1
Recidivism among forensic psychiatric patients undergoing outpatient treatment for mental health disorders – A meta-analysis1
Assertive community treatment as an alternative to incarceration for American pretrial detainees1
A scoping review of the forensic psychiatric expertise for compulsory treatment application in Brazil1
Lack of challenge to substantive criteria at mental health tribunals: Amplifying the medical perspective?1
Is anti-ligature an automatic requirement for suicide prevention?: Assessing legal obligations in alternative mental health crisis services1
Cognition in older offenders in North Rhine-Westphalia: A comparison of prisoners and patients in forensic psychiatry hospitals1
Psychosis and conduct disorder in Greek forensic patients found not guilty by reason of insanity: Differences between patients with and those without a history of conduct disorder in childhood or adol1
Community reentry: Racial/ethnic differences in unmet needs among adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorder1
Barriers and facilitators for mental-health professionals in the management and implementation of advance directives1
Australian and New Zealand doctors' experiences of disciplinary notifications, investigations, proceedings and interventions relating to alleged mental health impairment: a qualitative analysis of int1
Crime hierarchy, victimization and coping results of a qualitative study on the older incarcerated Person's mental health in Switzerland1
Criminal legal system contact in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD): Experiences and support needs1
The influence of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on the European court of human rights in the area of mental health law: Divergence and unexplored potential1
Corrigendum to ‘The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people’ [International Journ1
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